AMS Sectional Meeting Program by AMS Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, November 10, 2009 00:42:31

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday November 7, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, I
Room 268, Surge Building
Organizers:
Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Phase transitions in groups with a prescribed infinite set of generators.
  Melvyn B. Nathanson*, City University of New York (Lehman College and the Graduate Center)
  (1054-11-201)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Maximal operators and differentiation theorems in sparse sets.
  Izabella Laba*, UBC
  (1054-42-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finding patterns avoiding many monochromatic constellations.
  Steven Butler*, UCLA
  Kevin Costello, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ronald Graham, UCSD
  (1054-05-55)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multiple ergodic averages for flows and configurations in sets of positive density in $\mathbb{R}$.
  Amanda J. Potts*, Northwestern University
  (1054-37-155)

Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, II
Room 268, Surge Building
Organizers:
Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Sparse quasi-random graphs and sequences.
  Fan Chung*, University of California, San Diego
  (1054-05-264)
- 4:00 p.m.
  High-rank polynomial phase decompositions, with number-theoretic applications.
  Julia Wolf*, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
  (1054-11-153)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Dynamical analogues of the Mordell-Lang Conjecture and the Mumford gap principle.
  P. M. Kurlberg*, Department of Mathematics, KTH, Stockholm
  R. L. Benedetto, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Amherst College
  D. Ghioca, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Lethbridge
  T. J. Tucker, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
  U. Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  (1054-11-191)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Character-free approach to progression-free sets.
  Vsevolod F Lev*, The University of Haifa
  (1054-11-161)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Some remarks on van der Waerden's theorem.
  Ron Graham*, UCSD
  (1054-05-158)

Sunday November 8, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, III
Room 268, Surge Building
Organizers:
Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Expansion in $SL_d({\bf Z}/q{\bf Z})$, $q$ square-free.
  Péter P. Varjú*, Princeton University
  (1054-05-137)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On representations of integers in thin subgroups of SL(2,Z).
  Jean Bourgain, IAS
  Alex Kontorovich*, IAS and Brown
  (1054-11-265)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the sum of two products of sumsets in prime fields.
  Victor Garcia*, Institute of Mathematics (BOKU Wien)
  (1054-11-05)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Intersective polynomials and the primes.
  Thai Hoang Le*, UCLA
  (1054-11-271)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finite point configurations in Euclidean and arithmetic settings.
  Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
  (1054-05-253)

Sunday November 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Combinatorics, IV
Room 268, Surge Building
Organizers:
Mei-Chu Chang, University of California Riverside mcc@math.ucr.edu
Alex Gamburd, University of California Santa Cruz and Northwestern University agamburd@math.northwestern.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convexity and sumsets.
  Endre Szemeredi*, Rutgers University
  Jozsef Solymosi, University of British Columbia
  (1054-05-302)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On sumsets which have large subsets with small doubling.
  Jozsef Solymosi*, University of British Columbia
  Endre Szemeredi, Rutgers University
  (1054-05-298)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Sums and Products of Distinct Sets in $\mathbb{C}$.
  Karsten O. Chipeniuk*, University of British Columbia
  (1054-05-286)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Sums of sets of primes with positive relative density.
  Mariah Hamel*, University of Georgia
  Karsten Chipeniuk, University of British Columbia
  (1054-11-288)

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